CHICAGO, IL — The woman who rowed around Lake Michigan two years ago to raise money for cancer survivors is at it again, this time on a bike.

Jenn Gibbons, 29, and a crew of riders will leave Chicago on Aug. 10 and travel around the lake counter-clockwise with hopes to raise $150,000 for a boathouse to be built for the organization she founded Recovery on Water (ROW).

The organization focuses on getting breast cancer survivors out on the water in rowing shells, working as a team to realize their exercise goals and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The journey is slated to last two weeks with 60 to 80 mile days planned, Gibbons said.

"We have cyclists who are either doing the whole 15 days, one week or one day," Gibbons said. "People can sign up for whatever they want and we're still recruiting through the middle of July."

Her trip in 2012 rowing a bright yellow ocean rowboat named "Liv" was marred by a sexual assault in the early hours of July 22 in Schoolcraft County in the Upper Peninsula.

Gibbons halted her journey for a few days during the investigation then continued on bike before getting back in her boat near Muskegon days later.

That biking experience shaped a love of two wheels for Gibbons who said her time riding was therapeutic for her recovery.

"I had all these people join me and it was the first time in really a month that I hadn't been alone," Gibbons said. "I felt really supported and felt part of a team. It's very similar to rowing where if you can do it well together, you can do it better than you could on your own."

The boathouse will help provide a permanent home for ROW and a couple other crew teams, Gibbons said.

"We've been able to expand our program and diversify where we get our funding from," Gibbons said. "We serve a variety of breast cancer survivors and through that growing we realized that we really need a home."

The team currently rows out of a Chicago Parks District piece of land along the south branch of the Chicago River. Construction of the boathouse is planned for next year.

The physical building will be great for housing the boats and keeping them safe from the elements, Gibbons said, but the real joy is in the people.

"One of the biggest things I'm really proud of in our team is we've worked very hard to diversify the survivors we work with," she said. "We've got all kinds of women on the team and that really strengthens what we do and makes it more wonderful. I'm really proud of that."

Gibbons said she knows the trip will take her through the area of her assault and will let the emotions come when they're ready.

"I think what I realized over the last couple years since I've been home is to let whatever I'm feeling come out and let the people around me support me," she said. "I remember the first day I got on the bike I was moving so well and I was sobbing."

"The movement and recovery from whatever you're going through can be so powerful and that's the reason I founded the organization I did. It's a rolling celebration of survivors and survivorship."